The panel assessed the ambitious goal of the EU envisaged by the Action 1 and 2 of the Integrated SET Plan to sustain its global technological leadership in the field of developing highly performant renewable technologies and their integration in the EU’s energy system as well as reducing the cost of key energy technologies.

He also addressed the issue of fossil fuels subsidies. “In many programmes, we keep subsiding fossil fuels technologies,” said Mr Dumas. “If we want to remain n°1 in renewables, the first thing Europe has to do is to stop all these subsidies now.”